Migrant Crisis - Page 6

The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) says the number of asylum applications in January 2023 has more than doubled compared to last year.

Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.

The number of migrants being hosted in British hotels at the taxpayers’ expense rose from 2,577 in March 2020 to 37,142 by September 2022.

Nigel Farage has called for a Brexit-style national referendum on leaving the deportation-blocking European Court of Human Rights.

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson slammed a Muslim-led disinformation campaign that has claimed Swedish social services are kidnapping children from Muslim parents.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cypriots on Sunday began voting for their eighth president in the ethnically divided island’s 63-year history as an independent republic, with three front-runners each portraying themselves as the safest bet to guide the country through turbulent economic times and to seek peace with breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

The leftist President of Ireland has attacked anti-mass migration protesters in the country, accusing them of “sowing hate”.

An influx of migrants into a region of Germany has left many locals struggling to find adequate housing, a number of mayors have claimed.

The ongoing migrant crisis in Ireland has become a key election issue within the country’s politics, research from a major polling company has claimed.

Private landlords in Britain are reportedly set to be offered long-term leases from the government to house the overflow of migrants.

Nearly 400 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats from the beaches of France on Wednesday.

Hundreds of serious criminals including a convicted murderer, a serial paedophile, and an Islamic State jihadist have been found among the boat migrants landing in Britain unopposed by the tens of thousands, according to a report. 

Foreigners were detained by London’s Metropolitan Police an astonishing 36,735 times in 2021, including dozens suspected of murder and hundreds suspected of rape. 

A majority of British and European Union nationals want Europe to preserve its Christian culture and worry about illegal immigration, polling suggests.

The UK government is considering forcing tech companies to remove videos that show illegal boat migrant crossings in a “positive light”.

Political and media figures in Ireland are demanding that protesting the country’s asylum crisis in front of migrant housing centres should be made illegal.

Investigators said the suspect presents himself as a 31-year-old Algerian national and was known to French authorities under several identities for home invasion, theft, and rebellion in 2019 and 2021. He received orders to leave French territory in 2020 and in September of last year, the statement detailed.

A 21-year-old Tunisian suspected of drug dealing was arrested this week in the city of Toulon after attacking French police officers, injuring two.

A group of people in the Canadian French-speaking province of Quebec have initiated a private criminal prosecution against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over illegal border crossings.

Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at a press conference Thursday dismissed the White House’s criticism of Florida for deploying the National Guard in response to the migrant crisis.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Ireland must prepare to grant asylum to migrants supposedly fleeing climate change, a government minister from the Green Party has declared.

The Hungarian government says it apprehended some 269,254 “illegal entrants” at its southern border in 2022; a huge jump from the already high figure of 122,239 in 2021.

Italian leftists are furious over Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni directing NGO migrant “taxi” ships to drop off migrants in cities run by leftist mayors.

LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

The unilateral decision by the Home Office to open up a migrant centre in a hotel in a sleepy English village has been met with disbelief and outrage among the residents, who expressed fear over the prospect of hosting hundreds of asylum seekers.

Amid an influx of tens of thousands of migrants, the Irish government has reportedly decided to reopen a tent city, as locals protest the EU member-state’s open borders policies.

Several activist non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have alleged French authorities tried to deport two Syrian nationals back to Syria, claiming the attempts are illegal under international law.

An Algerian illegal migrant tried to strangle his four-month-old child to death after he was refused residency in France, putting a rope around the child’s neck in front of the child’s mother.

As Sweden takes on the Presidency of the European Council for the first six months of 2023, a Swedish ambassador has stated the country has no intentions of brokering a deal on curbing migration.

Parents protested in Dublin after it was discovered that the Irish government had moved migrants into a local school without telling parents.

German news magazine Der Spiegel has retracted a number of false reports of a dead Syrian child on the Greek border after the Greek Migration Minister insisted the reports were erroneous. The magazine published the retraction on Friday, clarifying that

France’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, has ruled that non-Ukrainian foreigners leaving Ukraine are not eligible for the same refugee protection in France as Ukrainian nationals.

A Border Force officer arrested by anti-corruption cops may have been outed as being an illegal himself, according to a papers claims.